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Volunteering and the state
Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2009
This paper explores the capability of the state to affect the individual's decision to work for free. For this purpose we combine individual-level data from the European and World Values Survey with macroeconomic and political variables for OECD member countries. Empirically we identify three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003810895
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Volunteering and the state
Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2009
This paper explores the capability of the state to affect the individual's decision to work for free. For this purpose we combine individual-level data from the European and World Values Survey with macroeconomic and political variables for OECD member countries. Empirically we identify three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009239031
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Marital Sorting and Cross-Country Differences in Intergenerational Earnings Persistence
Tolstova, Vera - 2021
In a real economy, decisions on investments in child human capital of children are made by families rather than by atomistic parents as is typically assumed in the literature. This paper incorporates family formation into an otherwise standard dynastic framework with human capital accumulation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246176
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Coping with the Crisis : Public Safety Nets and Reliance on Government in the Wake of the Global Economic Crisis of 2008-2009
Anderson, John E. - 2015
This paper examines how people in transition countries coped with the impacts of the global economic and financial crisis of 2008-2009. The data indicate that households in these countries were hit harder than those in other regions of the world. We consider how transition country households...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016809
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Social Security, Dead Capital and Economic Inequality
Tracht, Marshall E. - 2021
Economic inequality in America continues to grow, taking on ever greater economic and political importance. The reasons for increasing inequality are complex and widely debated, as are potential policies to address it. This paper focuses on a vital but unrecognized part of the story: how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217855
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Social Security and Retirement Around the World : Historical Trends in Mortality and Health, Employment, and Disability Insurance Participation and Reforms
Milligan, Kevin S.; Wise, David A. - 2011
This is the introduction and summary to the fifth phase of an ongoing project on Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement Incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the strong relationship across countries between social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014043291
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The Child Penalty Atlas
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
gender inequality. Because parenthood is often tied to marriage, we also investigate the existence of marriage penalties in … female employment. In general, women experience both marriage and child penalties, but their relative importance depends on … economic development. The development process is associated with a substitution from marriage penalties to child penalties …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337881
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What explains the variation in estimates of labour supply elasticities?
Evers, Michiel; Mooij, Ruud A. de; Vuuren, Danie͏̈l J. van - 2006
This paper performs a meta-analysis of empirical estimates of uncompensated labour supply elasticities. We find that much of the variation in elasticities can be explained by the variation in gender, participation rates, and country fixed effects. Country differences appear to be small though....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348713
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What's in, what's out : designing benefits for universal health coverage
Glassman, Amanda (ed.); Giedion, Ursula (ed.);  … - Center for Global Development <Washington, DC> - 2017
Policymaker commentary : how explicit benefits plans have helped Mexico in its transition towards UHC / Eduardo González Pier -- Defining the rules of the game : good governance principles for the design and revision of your benefits package / Ursula Giedion and Javier Guzmán -- Tracking the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011644715
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What Explains the Variation in Estimates of Labour Supply Elasticities?
Evers, Michiel - 2006
This paper performs a meta-analysis of empirical estimates of uncompensated labour supply elasticities. We find that much of the variation in elasticities can be explained by the variation in gender, participation rates, and country fixed effects. Country differences appear to be small though....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783322